Category Archives: Books

Good Morning – I’m Still Here – Until I’m Not

Posted on February 13, 2014 by commart

______ ______ ______ Credit the mom with saying, “I’m still here!” About a week before she wasn’t. I have many years to go for that, so I hope, but this has been a tough winter. The worst part, perhaps, has … Continue reading →

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Salman Rushdie Reads from His Memoir — _Joseph Anton_

Posted on October 12, 2012 by commart
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Done with Facebook Chatyping for the Week

Posted on August 11, 2012 by commart

At last I left the heavier peace and hate-peace group chatyping to others and managed to slip out of the apartment for a combined meeting over lunch and book  shopping in Front Royal, Virginia.  (Highly recommended stops in Front Royal: … Continue reading →

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A Thumbs-Up for Englander’s Most Recent Collection of Short Stories

Posted on July 15, 2012 by commart

Englander, Nathan.  What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Following my Bar Mitzvah, I journeyed off forty years in the American Wildness. America affords every man this much: a smorgasbord of employments … Continue reading →

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